System Resolver Test App?

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Nov 13 01:52:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:06:11PM -0600,
 david at from525.com <david at from525.com> wrote 
 a message of 39 lines which said:

> Is there any way you could incorporate resolver errors being sent to
> stdout?

It does, if getaddrinfo returns an error. But getaddrinfo does not
return until is has something (an answer, or an error) so it is not a
good tool to investigate resolver internal errors (tcpdump is
certainly better nere).

That's the problem with high-level routines :-)



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